Rosepetal Posted March 9, 2018 Share Posted March 9, 2018 (edited) I have an 8 yo, 3rd grader and I have compiled some must read literature for my dd which are: Baby island Little House book series Ramona books series Stuart Little The Courage of Sarah Noble The Bear on Hemlock Mountain The Cricket in Time Square Because of Winnie Dixie Penderwick series books Pippi Long stockings My Father's Dragon Frindle Harriet the Spy Shiloh Mrs. Frisby and the rats of Nimh Charlotte's web Charlie and Chocolate factory The Velveteen Rabbit From the Mixed up Files of Mrs. Basil E.Frankweiler I would love to hear how you all do guided reading for challenging literature books? In your opinion which books reading will get the child for challenging books like King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table, The Door in the Wall, The Princess and the Goblin,The Story of Rolf and the Viking Bow and The King's Shadow? For which grades these books are recommended? Grade 3 or above? For the advanced books do you buddy read, let them read aloud to you and discuss each page and new vocab for a child to get them comprehend the complex sentence structure and vocabulary? What are your must read books in elementary which will lay the strong foundation for the challenging books?Thanks! Edited March 9, 2018 by Rosepetal 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanaqui Posted March 9, 2018 Share Posted March 9, 2018 I would not read The Courage of Sarah Noble. The Little House books are fairly problematic too, as is Cricket in Times Square. They were written in a different time, but you're reading them with a fairly young child today. It's easy to say you'll just teach your kid that racism is bad, but when you're presenting books with racist sentiments as literature then you're sort of mixing up your messages. (And I'd hold off on Harriet the Spy until the kid is closer in age to Harriet, which would allow us to have some pretty deep discussions about the queer coding and the fact that way back when, LGBT people like Louise Fitzhugh often had even more difficulty than they do today.) More generally, I notice that your booklist is not very diverse. They say that literature should be both a mirror and a window. Right now, at least when it comes to the human protagonists, it looks like it's only one of the two. My booklist for this age group, if we keep the same approximate reading level, would look more like this: How Tia Lola Came to Stay The Birchbark House series One Ramona book, then the Fletcher Family series Stuart Little The Pickpocket's Tale The Mighty Miss Malone The Year of the Dog Because of Winnie Dixie Penderwick series books Pippi Longstocking My Father's Dragon Frindle The Grand Plan to Fix Everything Shiloh Mrs. Frisby and the rats of NIMH Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer Oddity From the Mixed up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler The Night Diary Zahrah the Windseeker El Deafo There. Now, I've kept some of your book choices, but I mixed it up a bit more. Many of these books are a bit difficult for the average third grader - they're written on approximately a fifth grade reading level. I stuck to that same reading level, but is that the difficulty you're aiming for? 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
almondbutterandjelly Posted March 9, 2018 Share Posted March 9, 2018 I use arbookfind.com to figure out reading levels of books. If it's not in there, scholastic has a thing, too, to figure out book levels. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosepetal Posted March 9, 2018 Author Share Posted March 9, 2018 Thanks. Keep your lists coming!!!😀 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aurelia Posted March 10, 2018 Share Posted March 10, 2018 Some of DD's favorites, some have already been mentioned: El Deafo (I just had to buy a second copy for her because she lost the original after reading it 30ish times) Because of Winn Dixie The Wizard of Oz The Birchbark House series Understood Betsy The Tale of Despereaux Wonder Bambi Momo (Ende) The Little Prince Four Dolls (Godden) a lot of Geraldine McCaughrean's stuff, like Greek Myths, The Jesse Tree, Peter Pan in Scarlet (official sequel to Peter Pan) Where the Mountain Meets the Moon Black Beauty 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earthmerlin Posted March 10, 2018 Share Posted March 10, 2018 Anne of Green Gables Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shoes+Ships+SealingWax Posted March 11, 2018 Share Posted March 11, 2018 DS & I found Stuart Little choppy & dull, to be honest. We vastly preferred the Ralph S. Mouse trilogy (Mouse & the Motorcycle, Runaway Ralph, Ralph S. Mouse). Our upcoming read-aloud list includes: Tales from the Odyssey Anna Hibiscus Babe The BFG The Reluctant Dragon Charlotte’s Web Clementine Le Petit Prince The Night Fairy Mr. Popper’s Penguins Nim’s Island Where the Mountain Meets the Moon Pippi Longstocking The Tale of Desperaux The Trumpet of the Swan Ragweed (prequel to Poppy) Wonder Mrs. Frisby & the Rats of NIMH The Rescuers I think I’ll add Year of the Dog from PP’s List above, as well - should be interesting for my DS, who is in a reversed situation (we are American expats in Asia). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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